Only one more day to go and our wonderful holiday in England is at an end. What a very special time it has been. I have learned so much about my ancestors; where some of them were born, where they moved from and to, where they died.
Incredibly, one of my cousins gave us insight into the family of a second marriage of my paternal grandmother, of which I knew nothing about until very recently.
Unexpectedly coming upon the gravestone of a relative, the probable ancestor of my maternal grandmother, while walking around a cemetery in Swaffam, Norfolk for the first time in my life, was a thrilling experience.
During the trekkiing around the countryside, I learned so much about other historical events not learned earlier in my life, I feel as though I have been on a super elderhostel tour.
The weather has been marvelous, considering the usual inclement moisture at this time of year. Who would have believed that October would have been a half descent time to tour Roman Baths, Stonehenge, Cumbria fels or Hadrian's Wall!
This has also been a pilgrimage; so many ancient churches, priories and other ecclestiacal locations and people have been encountered.
I think it will take me some time to get back into ordinary daily life when we get home but there's one thing I know and that is that I have much more understanding of what life might have been in the recent and long ago past in the land of my birth.
What a history lesson!